Word: resurrect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet Union is a superpower in military might only. Perestroika has failed to resurrect a moribund economy. The USSR has lost its "security buffer" of Communist puppets in Eastern Europe. And now the Soviet Union itself is threatened by internal collapse. Glasnost has unleashed a torrent of independence movements...
...that Picasso, Braque and Gris cut their collage materials from, or hanging photographs of the kinds of shopwindow display that, they persuasively argue, reinforced the cult of the Surrealist object in the '20s. But the effort to put long-gone popular culture in a museum is like trying to resurrect an old perfume in a room...
...abalone to how to prepare a really good, well, pot roast with mashed potatoes, one of my favorites. The cookbooks incorporate all the flavors and delicacy of the new American cuisine as practiced in imaginative restaurants across the country, but there is also a pile of books that resurrect the wonderfully old-fashioned regional cookery, from Cajun to Mennonite. Most cooks won't buy more than a couple of cookbooks a year, so I have ranked the following in order of purchasing preference. Work from the top down, as in a recipe, to stock the kitchen library...
What happened to televangelist Pat Robertson, owner of the Christian Broadcasting Network and seemingly a natural bidder to resurrect PTL-TV? Robertson made two separate bids, one for the network, the other for the whole package, but both were rejected as inadequate by the bankruptcy trustee. Rival televangelist Jerry Falwell, who owns a small cable outfit, got burned while running PTL and stayed out of the fray...
With or without Aung San Suu Kyi's release, her party must move quickly to cement its mandate. Party leaders aim to call the new National Assembly into session within 60 days after the election. To forestall extensive negotiations over the drafting of a new constitution, the league may resurrect the 1947 constitution, which was suspended in 1962. And it plans to invite the junta to enter into talks on the transfer of power. "We have to calm the present political anger and forget about political reprisals," says Khin Nghwe, 48, who belongs to the league's executive committee...